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Note: I work for the Yorba Foundation and am the lead developer of Shotwell. The following are my own opinions and observations.
When Ubuntu first approached us about making Shotwell the default photo manager, we suggested to them that Shotwell not replace EoG as the individual photo viewer. At the time Shotwell's photo viewer lacked many significant ...

We do have plans to add face recognition and a Faces (or People) view to Shotwell: Bugzilla - Shotwell - Face detection
There's been some movement on a patch from community contributors, but there's still plenty of work to do.
UPDATE: Adventuresome Shotwell users unafraid to run development code should read my answer to How can I compile Shotwell to be ...

I'm the founder of Yorba, makers of Shotwell. Thanks for your question.
Shotwell 0.7 writes metadata (such as tags and titles) to photos when you export them. The metadata is written in EXIF, IPTC and/or XMP format (depending on which of these were present in the photo to begin with). Most other photo programs can read these formats, so if you export ...

This shell script will regenerate your thumbnails of sizes 128px and 360px so you'll see at least something in viewer.
sqlite3 ~/.local/share/shotwell/data/photo.db \
"select id||' '||filename from PhotoTable order by timestamp desc" |
while read id filename; do
for size in 128 360; do
tf=$(printf ...

The specification for this decision is here: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-maverick-shotwell
Here is a video clip where we discussed Shotwell (and other apps) at the Ubuntu Developer Summit: http://ubuntudevelopers.blip.tv/file/2876109/

If you're using the "Camera" developer, Shotwell extracts the embedded JPEG from the RAW file and places it beside the file. This JPEG is then used to display the RAW photo.
There has been some traction on changing this behavior to display the embedded JPEG without extracting it. See this ticket for more info: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4261

Shotwell's database can be corrupted due to kernel panics and loss of power.
With Shotwell 0.10 or above, the database is automatically backed up every time the program exits; in the worst case, you'd end up losing any work since you started the program.
Unfortunately, older versions of Shotwell don't have this feature and it's unlikely that you can ...

dalloliogm is partially right, but it's not like we never considered it.
First, if you have multiple users who want to use Shotwell on their own photo libraries, and they have their own accounts on the machine, then everybody can log in to their own account and have their own database and their own picture library. That's true for Shotwell out-of-the-box.
...

Have you tried Desktop Flickr Organizer?
It is available in the Software Centre or "upload photos to Flickr" package?
I don't use Flickr and have not tested them myself..so give us feedback whether either of them works.
OK, now comes the hacky solution. Haven't tested that either :)
Firstly you could look into flickrfs. As I understand it enables to ...

You have to do two things to achieve your four goals.
First, don't use Shotwell to import new photos. Import them with Nautilus to wherever you want to keep the pictures.
Second, change a setting in Shotwell. Edit/Preferences/Library(tab)/Import photos to: and select 'Other', then navigate to where you store your photos. This should be a drive that ...

I do not know how to change shortcuts in Shotwell directly but you can use a Gnome feature to do that : "Edit Menu Shortcut Key"
Activate this feature
Run gconf-editor and go to /desktop/gnome/interface/
Check the 'can_change_accels' option
no need to restart anything, just close gconf-editor
Change menu shortcuts in your apps
Start your application : ...

An easy way for Shotwell to regenerate thumbnails (this is a workaround):
Go to your Photos page.
Edit -> Select All
Ctrl+R (rotate)
When finished rotating, Ctrl+Z (undo).
This will force Shotwell to regenerate all photos and honor any transformations it has stored for them.
As phq mentioned, there is an outstanding bug to fix this so you won't need ...

Unfortunately Shotwell does seem to keep the tags in its own database rather than embed them as exif,IPTC or XMP in the pictures, you can check by using exiftool, exiftool can be installed by installing the package libimage-exiftool-perl
, available in the repositories.
See some examples here; http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
use the ...

The problem is that Shotwell will only copy the photos if they are located outside your XDG Pictures directory (usually ~/Pictures). If they are located inside your Pictures directory, Shotwell does not copy or reorganize them. (It's a tough call, but there are a lot of people out there who absolutely, positively do NOT want us to move their photos because ...

Select one or more photos and/or videos
From the Photos menu, select adjust date/time
Note that if you have metadata writing on, Shotwell will write the change to photo file formats that it can support. (Video files and RAW images will NOT be affected.)
Also since you didn't say which version of Shotwell you're using, I should point out that adjusting ...

The Faces feature was #ifdef'd out of the source until Yorba could add a little more functionality to Shotwell to make it truly useful -- see Bugzilla - Upload faces to facebook and Bugzilla - Face detection. However, as we continued developing other features for Shotwell, the Faces code broke, so there's no way to build Shotwell with Faces support from ...

You are correct about RAW files being unprocessed shots. In fact, they're so unprocessed that the files are not even JPEG files. Thus RAWs are typically converted to JPEG. For this, you would typically use a RAW Editor. A RAW editor usually does things like handle tint, exposure, things like that, which can be best tweaked before it converts to JPEG. ...

Cyrex -- Shotwell uses height x width as is standard for photo sizes, as fluteflute mentioned. Currently, Shotwell limits the crop ratio to a series of pre-defined sizes for printing.
However, in the upcoming Shotwell 0.10 we've decided to remove that limitation. In the meantime, you can always right click on the photo and select Open With External ...

Update
With shotwell 0.18 thumbnails are now generated when manually viewed.
Don't remove .shotwell/thumbs!
According to this bug in launchpad, thumbnails are only generated on import.
Thumbnails are only generated at import. If the thumbnails are removed from disk they are not regenerated.

I submited question on Launchpad and got answer, so just in case someone else have similar problem here is how I solved it:
sudo dpkg --force-all -i /var/cache/apt/archives/shotwell_0.18.1-1~trusty1_i386.deb
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qt4-x11/+question/252665

Shotwell creates new Events with each import, regardless if the photos you are importing could fit into an existing Event. The thinking is that if you're importing photos from separate cameras (or another source), they may not be of the same "event" (i.e. one from a birthday party, another at the zoo or something). This isn't perfect for everyone, and ...

There are numerous ways to export a group of pictures selected in Shotwell.
The file pane at the left hand side of the application window is a virtual library with a directory structure and folder names that do not map directly to the system's file directories. This can throw you off if you're coming from windows because the photo managers I've used there ...

This feature has been requested on the Shotwell mailing list:
First and foremost, I think there definitely should be a way to "delete"
events, or assign photos to "no event". Importing a folder of ~1000
"miscellaneous" photos collected over a year creates about 30-50 events,
which is a bit ridiculous; it defeats the purpose of events ...

Shotwell 0.8 will include basic video support: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/855. You can import video from a camera and organize it in your library (tags, events) just like a photo. No editing however, and if you double-click, it will launch a movie player. We hope one day to host the player inside Shotwell itself: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2820
If ...